In a World of Paradigm Shifts, This is a Big One

A couple of months ago, at RSA, we introduced our vision for secure networks. We call it the Software Defined Secure Network (SDSN) and it shifts the paradigm from network security to secure networks. That’s an important distinction for customers and partners alike.

SDSN is how the network can protect itself. With SDSN, every part of the network can become an active participant in security by providing information for detection or becoming an enforcement point. Long term, this is the most effective way to deal with threats and intruders by leveraging your entire network to be part of your overall security capabilities rather than only in specific dedicated security products.

SDSN is pervasive and significantly more effective and manageable. It will make it far more difficult for those with the intent of causing harm to do so. Customers can now focus on the harder cybersecurity problems they face.

Today, Juniper Networks is furthering our SDSN vision by unveiling the new virtual firewall product with a compact footprint, the cSRX which provides advanced L4-L7 services and is tailored for container environments, and also an upgraded virtual SRX (vSRX), which is the fastest virtual firewall in the industry and the first to reach 100 giga bits per second (Gbps). Both enable the network to better detect and combat threats through increased speed and agility.

These enhancements to Juniper’s virtualized security portfolio extend the network and security administrator’s ability to provision and scale firewall protection, while adding enforcement points across containerized and virtualized environments. That’s what SDSN is all about. There’s more information about today’s announcement here.

Some things to keep in mind: With SDSN, the network is easier to manage. Policy is simpler to create and deploy. Policies adapt based on real-time threat intelligence and enforcement is automated. Threat detection is faster. Customers understand this.

There’s more information about SDSN in this video with our CTO and VP of Security, Kevin Walker. Get familiar with SDSN. It’ll shift everyone’s network security paradigm sooner than you think.

Andrew is Operations Manager for OneConfig. OneConfig creates tools for Juniper devices: cloud-managed EX and SRX; and Pre-sales reports for SRX. Andrew has worked in Network Management for over twelve years. During that time he implemented and ran commercial Network Management systems for large telco networks. He also managed the complete development of a custom Network Management system at Telstra (Australia’s largest telco). Following that he oversaw IBM’s redevelopment project of their Remote Network Managed Services platform that provides their customers with complete visibility and control of their IP networks.
Most recently Andrew ran the Professional Services Practice for CA Technologies, responsible for the design and implementation of Service Assurance, Performance Management and Service Management platforms into customer environments.
Andrew has a Master of Business and Technology from the Australian School of Business, UNSW. He lives on Sydney’s beautiful Northern Beaches. When not spending time with his young family, or dreaming about better and simpler ways to manage complex networks, he likes to ride his mountain bike, surf and play golf.

Boon Thau Loo is an Associate Professor in the Computer and Information Science department at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a co-founder of Gencore Systems, a cloud analytics spinoff from the University of Pennsylvania. He is well-known for his research on programming and analysis tools for designing, implementing, and securing large-scale distributed systems. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 2006. Prior to his Ph.D, he received his M.S. degree from Stanford University in 2000, and his B.S. degree with highest honors from UC Berkeley in 1999. He was awarded the David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize (2006) for the most outstanding dissertation research in the Department of EECS at UC Berkeley, and the ACM SIGMOD Dissertation Award (2007). He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award (2009) and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Award (2012). He has published 100+ peer reviewed publications and has supervised 6 Ph.D dissertations. His students include current tenure-track faculty members and winners of 3 dissertation awards.

Experienced and results driven executive sales leader with over of 22 years of Management in Enterprise, Commercial, Carrier & Channel Sales, both on a national and global basis. Have run global businesses as part of the executive team from start-ups and acquisition to over $570 million in annual revenue. Responsible for managing all reseller channel sales activities, including partner recruitment, partner satisfaction and revenue attainment for JacobsRimell (now Amdocs).
Prior to JacobsRimell, I served as Senior Manager of Global Service Management at Cisco Systems and Vice President and National Sales Manager at Philips Electronics, where I led significant company growth and was instrumental in developing U.S. enterprise channel sales and operations as well as revenue goals. Prior to Philips, I have also held senior sales executive roles at Sony and Sharp Electronics. Now on my 8th year at Juniper Networks.

JONATHAN BELCHER
Vice President, Americas Commercial Inside and Partner Sales
Jonathan Belcher is vice president of Americas Commercial Inside and Partner Sales at Juniper Networks. He is responsible for sales development and growth of Juniper Networks commercial inside sales, resellers, strategic alliances and distributor partners.
Jonathan formerly held the role of vice president of Partner sales for Juniper’s APAC, Greater China and Japan theaters. From 2012 to 2014, he led the rollout of the partner programs designed to increase the strength of how Juniper and its partners deliver solutions to enterprise and Service Provider customers across APAC.
He joined Juniper in 2010 as vice president of the strategic worldwide alliance with Dell. With more than 20 years’ partner experience, he has managed large alliances and channel sales teams in the Americas, EMEA and APAC.
Jonathan has also held a number of senior management positions building partner organizations in companies such as Fujitsu, Quantum and Neterion, and partnering with IBM, Dell, Hewlett Packard, Compaq Computer and Sun Microsystems.
He holds a B.S.B.A in Business and Marketing from the University of Arizona. He resides in Austin, Texas

I have been in the networking industry for over 35 years: PBXs, SNA, Muxes, ATM, routers, switches, optical - I've seen it all. Twelve years in the US, over 25 in Europe, at companies like AT&T, IBM, Bay Networks, Nortel Networks and Dimension Data. Since 2007 I have been at Juniper, focusing on solutions and services: solving business problems via products and projects. Our market is characterized by amazing technological innovations, but technology is no use if you cannot get it to work and keep it working. That is why services are so exciting: this is where the technology moves out of the glossy brochures and into the real world!
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Justin has held a variety of positions at Alternative Networks since 1997 including responsibilities for running sales, product management, marketing, and training functions.
More recently he has been incubating a Wide Area Network division, and running cross sales in the enterprise sales division following an acquisition.

Justin Scopaz is senior director of Juniper Networks’ Worldwide Distribution organization. In this role, he is leading a global team driving worldwide distribution strategy, sales, and operations.
Prior to Juniper, Scopaz spent nearly two decades at Ingram Micro in a variety of senior leadership positions. Most recently, he served as vice president and general manager of Ingram Micro’s Data Capture and Physical Security business units. He also had responsibility for major national partners.
Based in Orange County, California, Scopaz is involved in both private and charitable organizations. He holds a B.A. in Business Management from California State University.

Martin Hester is the head of channels, alliances, commercial and cloud for Europe, Middle East and Africa. In this role, he is responsible for Juniper’s commercial and cloud business in EMEA.
Martin has been at Juniper Networks for 10 Years. During his tenure, he has built a deep understanding in alliances, distribution and partner operations and has been an integral part of Juniper’s channels and alliances go-to-market strategy.
Prior to Juniper Networks, Martin held a number of direct sales and management roles in Bay Networks, Nortel Networks, Avici Systems, Hitachi and Extreme Networks.

Mitch Lewis, VP of Partners and Alliances, Asia Pacific, brings over 25 years’ industry experience in sales, marketing and technology roles for companies that include AT&T, Dilithium Networks and Microsoft. He also served as VP of APAC Sales and Marketing and President of Indonesia for Ericsson.

I manage the Professional Services department for a Juniper Elite reseller in Southern California. When not trying to keep my customers and engineers happy I also like teach Juniper classes and spread the word about the power of Junos.